5 Signs To See If Your Are a People Person

August 28, 2007

There’s something we must all have to increase our posibilites of success, we must be very well conected, we must have “touch” and good relationships. Remember that if you want to lead you always need someone that follows you, right? , because above all “A leader is a people person”.

The point of this post, is that you understand how important is the ability to relate well to others because this will become part of your future professional success. Probably you are the most brilliant designer or programmer in the world, but if you lack of social graces you will not develop into a leader or an outstanding element, of course for every rule, there is a conspicuous exception. But how can you determine whether you are a people person or not? Well, there are 5 signs that can help you to define this.

  • You listen to toher people’s ideas. But not just listen,you pay attention towhat they’re saying.
  • You make eye contact. Everytime someone approaches, you establish visual contact, this is the best way to start a good conversation.
  • You try to be in the same situation as others. This means you have the ability to put yourself in another person’s situation and mindset. A people person cares about his fellow man and woman.
  • You Try to give them what they want. Because you know that one day everything will come back to you. What you give is what you get.
  • You’re not a pusher. You understand that things have to be dome as you want them to be, but you also understand that if you push someone the result willnot be perfect. Lead, don’t push. Teach don’t impose.

All great leaders, from CEO’s to ruler’s have this special talent. Most of all never forget that they are also humans just like you, this is something very valuable and worthless that can be acquired over time, so if you feel you still don’t have it, don’t worry and start practicing.

Free 6 Icon Pack! GlamGlass

August 23, 2007

Ok, this is my first set of free icons, GlamGlass Pack, 6 nice looking cons in png format. In the previous post I explained to you how important was to offer free stuff to your visitors, well that’s why I decided to design them, it only took me about 30 minutes, they’re very simple, but I hope you like them, download and use them as you wish. Enjoy them! Please, feedback will be much appreciated 😉

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Use Free Stuff To Attract Visitors!

August 21, 2007

As you know I’m also a designer, I leke to design a lot of things, not just logos and brands, the other day I was just playing around with photoshop and I created a great brush set for PS, and I thought ” I should promote this set” so I decided to release it for public use, this gave me also a lot of visits to my blog, first I submitted the brush set to Deviantart and then to Brusheeze, which is a great site full of free Photoshop brushes. This was on saturday I think, and so farit has been download more than 1570 times just in Brusheezy, just imagine!.

What can you offer for free?
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5 Premium Skills of the Successful Ones

August 20, 2007

The path to success sometimes require certain skills to complete it. Previously we published a post about the best habits and values you must have to succeed, well this time we’re going to take a look to 5 of the premium skills of the successful ones.

These skills or qualities are very common among artists, scientists, leaders and successful businessmen, some of them are easy to acquire if you’re willing to do so, others are gift, we are born with them, but there are others that take a lot of time , hard work, dedication and practice.

So let’s take a look at them, and try to define if you have them or not, and if you don’t, there’s no problem there are some things you stillc an do to acquire those skills.
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Triple Your Benefits!

August 19, 2007

We’ve all registered domains, but sometimes the process takes a lot of steps and time, well the guys from Triple.com ordered this review. Triple is a new is new domain registration service, hosting and SSL certificate provider (triple benefits). As they say ” Our goal is to provide you the best service by the world’s optimal prices.” Some of the interesting features of the domain registration service are:

  • User friendly control panel

  • Useful domains management tools

  • Best customer service and support

  • Real prices with no hidden costs

  • Free features for every domain

  • Advanced features for domains

Why register a domain with Triple?

There are hundreds of DR services, what makes this company special is the amount of free freatures you get with each registration, plus the amount of advanced powerful tools you can get, also prices are very cheap, with .com’s , .net , .info .org .name and .biz at just $9.99 per year. But! that’s not all , you can also get powerful and secure hosting for just $4.99/month, and SSl Certificates for as low as $10/year.

Sign up for an account is relatively simple and fast, it takes less than 3 minutes to complete, while domain registration is also very easy. One of the best things is that you’ll get a free $20 bonus when you sign up for a free account!

For now we are in setup process with some major features, but domain registration is working absolutely fine. As a gratitude for your attention and support we are glad to grand you with 20$ free bonus. Please go to the Add Funds section and add $20 to your account free of charge!

Take a look at this screenshot of my funds panel:

As you can see, this service has a lot of positive things, so why not give it a try?! Register domain name now nad get all the benefits! You wont regret it.

We’re Almost There!

August 16, 2007

Hi. I’m glad to announce that The Lounge is about to break the Top 1,000 barrier in Technorati! Our startegy has worked, this has also increased our PageRank and the number of backlinks. This tme I’m writing asking for your help, help us break the Top 1k barrier!

How can you help?

What we’re asking for is just for a backlink, just one, pick an article from our Archives page and write about it in your blog, or just write about htis post and add a backlink to this blog. As simple as that!

What do you get?

In exchange for your loyalty and friendship you’ll get exactly the same, a nice backlink from this site!. I’ll take a deep look at your blog and I’ll do a small review about it or about an interesting article.

I think it sounds fair, it is a win-win situation, plus you’ll be helping us to achieve this goal! just comment here or send us an email with the exact url to the review. Thanks!

Talent V.S Effort

August 15, 2007

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There was a time in which effort and dedication were the main ingredients to succeed. Today we all know that’s not all it takes to be successful, there are other things and skills to consider, one of them is talent, we all have it, but not all know where it resides or what it can do.

Talent is defined as the ability to do something different , something smarter and better. It is basically a skill or a gift someone’s born with, sometimes it is acquired after with the pass of time. The truth is that nowadays those who really use their talent istead of their force are the ones that achieve their goals.

Effort has to complement talent, and talent has to complement effort, but if we have to decide which one is better, I would say the second one. Why? simple, because it is the tool that will lead you trough the path of success, talent will guide your moves and your steps. For example, many people (not all) who used to be top of the class at school , always studing, always working, without almost any free time, are working for someone that enjoyed life, parties, school, friends, get the idea? How can this be explained? Well some say that it is because those who were happier and enjoy their lives every day develoe a higher level of talent because they’re more open to the outside world, and are more sensitive to what is around them. Read more

20 Must Do’s Before You Reach Your First Year As a Blogger!

August 13, 2007

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There are some things a person must do before reaching a certain level of experience, for example, in order to become an adult, you must do things like: get a job, get drunk 🙂 , learn how to drive, study, thing like that, you get the idea. Well the same happens when you’re a blogger, you have to do certain things to call yourself a real blogger.

For some people these tasks take a lot of time to be performed, but to others it becomes a piece of cake,well, now let’s go straight to the point, this is the list of the 20 things you must do before you reach your first year as a blogger, check them, and see which ones you’re missing, and if you have already completed the list, well then congratulations because you’re in your way to become a really successful blogger.

  1. Reach a decent traffic level. This point can vary depending on the blog, but let’s say around the 300 UV per day, and i’s still low.
  2. Break the Technorati Top 10K barrier. Some blogs can even reach a better rank in few months.
  3. Reach at least 250 subscribers. I know, for some it may sound very low, and to others a very difficult number, but believe me, it isn’t, it a very good number for a GOOD 1 year old blog.
  4. Redesign your blog! It is very commont to see new blogs changing the design constantly, (sounds very familiar to me) but this is normal, until your get the perfect look for your site.
  5. Be constantly checking the status of your site. This is also very common among new bloggers, during the first months you’re always checking for updates, comment and new rankings.
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Restarting The Fire!

August 10, 2007

Hi everyone! I’ts been a long time since our last post! Why? well first of all I went for two weeks to Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, lots of sun and lots of fun, second, because I was trying to give this blog a new look, with new functions, so I spent a lot of time in the redesign, I hope you like it and ejoy it, and third because I’ve been working in other personal projects as well, some of them really interesting. Basically those are the mainr eason why this blog was down for almost a month, but now I’m back, I’m back to the university as well, so I guess I’ll be posting maybe two or three times a week, but I’ll try to provide you high quality relevant articles.

Although this blog was down for a month, it still receives a lot of visits and it still has a lot of subscribers, thanks to all of you. As you can see we also experimented a small rebranding, we have a new logo! Well, This is a new season for The Lounge, We’re back, so let’s start the fire again!

Oh! By the way, let me know what you think about the new design! It is based on an original theme by BloggerLounge called ParmaRossa, I’ll release a public version very soon. Take care and I’ll post the first new article very soon!